For the past three months, MDEA agents have been investigating the sale of heroin in greater Biddeford area, including making several undercover purchases of heroin from Banks. The purchases were made within 1000 feet of a designated drug free safe zone.

Tuesday afternoon MDEA agents along with Biddeford Police with one of their canines, and the Southern Maine Violent Crime Task Force, arrested Banks at her apartment at 57 Sullivan Street in Biddeford. Seized from the apartment was 74 grams of heroin with a street value of $10,500.

Banks was taken to the York County Jail and was being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.